She Be Damned: A Heloise Chancey Mystery

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London courtesan or professional sleuth London, 1863: Prostitutes in Waterloo are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider who she can trust, before the killer strikes again.

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M.J. TJIA is a PhD in literature and was nominated for the QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award and received the Australian Post-Graduate Award for exceptional research potential. She is an award- winning Australian author. Her father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother has English-Irish Heritage. Being Eurasian herself means that she has always been interested in portraying racially hyridised characters.